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This algorithm attempts to find out whether a Pixel is a speckle in the scanned Image. A speckle can be roughly defined as an Impulse noise that has a very high/low value compared to its neighbors.

Normally, a median filter is good in reducing the speckle. But, applying median to remove speckle is not efficient. So an efficient way to do de-speckle is determine whether a pixel is a speckle and then apply Median or some other averaging technique.

Here is a way you can determine whether a pixel is a speckle quite fast. For this method to work you need to analyze the speckle pattern offline to figure out the threshold value.

Void SpeckleDetectAndCorrect ( char * source, int NumPixels )

{

/* We assume that the pixel of inerest is NumPixels/2+1. That is if the NumPixels is 5, then the 3rd pixel is the point of interest.*/